My Right Word

My thoughts, assertions and observations on issues important to me as a Jew, a Zionist, a Revenant in Yesha and as an inquisitive human being.

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Just How Militant?

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A letter to the special Middle East news editor of the BBC:- Sir, See, please, the item from today on the BBC web site. Just how ...

The Terminology of Reuters

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Here's something I noticed about the Reuters story on the Riyad kidnapping:No "militants", no "activists". Just plai...
Sunday, September 26, 2004

Missing

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Did anyone notice that the op-ed in Sunday's NYTimes, today, September 26, describing Iraq's nuclear weapons development history wa...
Friday, September 24, 2004

Nadia Matar Has Surprised Me

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No, I wasn't surprised by Nadia's use of Holocaust analogies, intimations and semantics in comparing what Yonatan Bassie, head of th...
Tuesday, September 14, 2004

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Shaul Magid purports in the Jerusalem Report that "radical settlers…rejectstate authority if it conflicts with their messianicvision” a...
Friday, September 03, 2004

Tariq's Tricks

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Tariq Ramadan, the controversial Swiss Islamist, published an op-ed in the NYTimes of September 1. He outlines the “legitimate criticism of ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2004

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In the New York Times editorial of August 23, "Folly in the West Bank", the paper insists a peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinia...
Friday, August 20, 2004

How to Skew The News

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Steven Erlanger, in his report published today, Friday, sought out additional commentary and quoted from two Israelis, Nahum Barnea and Yar...
Monday, August 16, 2004

Morality and Israel

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James Bennet's final climatic chords in his profile of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, "Sharon's Wars", that he had published...
Thursday, August 12, 2004

When is a "Militant" not a "Terrorist"?

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Here's a short letter I dashed off to the Public Editor of the New York Times today:- Sir, The following headline appeared over a...
Sunday, August 08, 2004

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Here's the reaction of the New York Times to my intimation regarding the media ethics of the photographers who had perhaps laid in wait ...
Friday, August 06, 2004

And Ayelet's Father Writes of Goldberg

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The "outpost" is called Amonah, a neighborhood of Ofra, There are two dozen families living there. There are no Arab villages near...

Gosh, Goldberg

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The Jeffrey Goldberg saga, continuing (expect more postings soon) ============================================= Dear Jeffrey, I just managed...
Thursday, August 05, 2004

Journalistic Ethics

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Reporting on the deaths of three Arabs in the Gaza Strip in the August 4 edition of his newspaper, caused by a prematurely exploded bomb, Ne...

Goldberg Goldbricks

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Jeffrey Goldberg of The New Yorker published an op-ed in the New York Times today, August 5, 2004 (see below). My comments, pithy and con...
Thursday, July 22, 2004

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In the Letters to the Editor section of the New York Times of July 22, Mubashir Hassan argues, regarding Israel's justification for its ...
Saturday, July 17, 2004

Myre Responds

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On July 9th, I wrote the following letter to the New York Times:- A report by your correspondent Greg Myre on Israel's military acti...
Friday, July 16, 2004

Treason. Treason?!

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In an item by Ma'ariv's Nadav Eyal, Tomy Lapid of Shinui is quoted as saying that a "government with Hareidim is treason ( begi...
Thursday, July 15, 2004

Maybe Just Unattainable

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James Bennet asserts the New York Times of July 15 that the Palestinian Authority's "institutions of statehood are crumbling" ...
Friday, July 09, 2004

Myre Mires and Muddles

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Greg Myre, a New York Times correspondent in Israel, reported in the July 9 issue on Israel's military activity in the Gaza Strip. He no...
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YMedad
Shiloh, Benjamin District, Samaria, Israel
American born, my wife and I moved to Israel in 1970. We have lived at Shiloh together with our family since 1981. I was in the Betar youth movement in the US and UK. I have worked as a political aide to Members of Knesset and a Minister during 1981-1994, lectured at the Academy for National Studies 1977-1994, was director of Israel's Media Watch 1995-2000 and currently, I work at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. I was a guest media columnist on media affairs for The Jerusalem Post, op-ed contributor to various journals and for six years had a weekly media show on Arutz 7 radio. I serve as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in Judea & Samaria.
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